Dr. Emma Thurston is a Senior Lecturer of Physician Associate Studies within the Department of Medical Science and Public Health at Bournemouth University. She is also a General Practitioner with a special interest in women’s health. Her PhD investigates if and how medicine’s neglect of female sexual pleasure is impacting the uptake of hormonal contraceptives.

Dr. Emma Thurston is also interested in championing women in academia, and is a co-convenor of Bournemouth University Woman’s Academic Network.

While researching the earliest history of cinema and intellectual property as a Kluge Fellow in 2022, Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp discovered the identity of the first motion picture copyright registration ever made, in 1893 by Thomas Edison’s head photographer William Dickson.

Claudy is Principal Academic in Film, and faculty member at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management. During the 2022 Spring semester, she was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. She is a 2023 Fellow at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.

She holds a PhD (Art & Media) from the University of Plymouth on the relationship between copyright ownership, access to archival film, and film historiography. She is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam (Film & Television Studies) and the University of East Anglia (Film Archiving).

Dr. Fritz Kohle is a globally-respected expert in production and post-production, with a wealth of management experience, and a passion for education. He earned his PhD at Edinburgh University in 2018. As a senior lecturer at the Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUAs), he has taught film and TV production since 2009 and obtained full tenure since 2012.

His specialism lies in documentary filmmaking and impact producing. Productions include “A Safe Haven,” a short documentary about refugee children in the Netherlands, and “God, Church, Pills & Condoms,” a film exploring teenage pregnancies in the Philippines. His documentary “The Old Normal is Killing Us” premiered at the 2021 Australian GBIENNALE GECO21 International Festival.